ISBN:
9781907975516
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 217 S.
,
Ill.
,
26 cm
Series Statement:
Moving image 5
Series Statement:
Moving image
DDC:
791.43096
Keywords:
Motion pictures History and criticism
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Film
;
Geschichte 1920-1997
Note:
Bibliogr. S. [195]-205
,
Foreword : If I'm wrong, I'm right
,
Introduction : Revising the classics : opening up the archives of African cinema
,
Part I. Lost histories, 1924-69 ; The birth of North African cinema
,
"Lost classics" in context : film production in South Africa 1920-1960
,
Francophone West African cinema, 1955-1969 : false starts and new beginnings
,
Part II. North Africa ; Forgotten women, lost histories : Selma Baccar's Fatma 75 (1978) and Assia Djebar's La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1978)
,
Naked nation : youth, masculinity, and the coming revolution in Man of ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986)
,
Postcolonialism at sea : the tragic ends of history in Badis (Mohamed A. Tazi, 1989)
,
Al Masir/Destiny (Youssef Chahine, 1997) : "a luta continua"
,
Part III. South Africa ; Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970) : of love, loss, and lunacy
,
Boesman and Lena (Ross Devenish, 1973) : the politics of place and peformance
,
The stick (Darrell Roodt, 1987) : a mental state
,
Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997) : or, the importance of being able to tell "messy" stories at the "wrong" time
,
Part IV. Francophone Africa ; Toads and cowboys : tracing a popular African cinema in Moustapha Alassane's Le Retour d'un aventurier (1966) and Bon voyage Sim (1966)
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Soleil O (Med Hondo, 1969) : "they cannot represent themselves ..."
,
Badou boy (Djibril Diop Mambéy, 1970) : intertextuality, gangster movies, and the language of African film
,
Cinema and nation-building : Muna moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, 1975)
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Aristotle's plot (Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1997)) : a refusal to "find" African cinema?
,
Part V. Anglophone West Africa ; Heritage Africa (Kwaw Ansah, 1983) : a cinema of political violence
,
A Nollywood classic : Living in bondage (Kenneth Nnebue, 1992/1993)
,
Lost in music? Race, culture, and identity in Rage (Newton I. Aduaka, 2000)
,
Part VI. Lusophone Africa ; The birth of fiction : On Mueda, memória e massacre (Ruy Guerra, 1979)
,
Udju azul di Yonta/The blue eyes of Yonta (Flora Gomes, 1992) : lost dreams/lost in dreams?
,
Part VII. East Africa ; Harvest 3000 years/Mïrt sost shi amät (Haile Gerima, 1976) : a revolutionary Ethiopian film
,
Women's stories and struggles in These hands (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling, 1992)
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